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07-22-11
Merz Pharmaceuticals Commends The Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation On 30 Years Of Community Support
/PRNewswire/ - Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC, commends the Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation (BEBRF) for 30 years of dedication to increasing awareness of blepharospasm, a neurological disorder that causes abnormal, involuntary spasms of the muscles around the e...
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07-13-11
Henry Schein Cares Foundation and Henry Schein Cares Contribute More Than $375,000 in Financial and Product Donations for Disaster Relief Efforts on Three Continents
PRNewswire/ -- Fund continues to collect money for tornado victims in the United States
Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the largest provider of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, and the Henry Schein Car...
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07-12-11
Tyco International Joins Action Against Hunger in Launching the Clean Water Access Initiative
/PRNewswire/ - In a new private-nonprofit venture, Tyco International and Action Against Hunger | ACF International today announced the launch of the Clean Water Access Initiative, a global partnership to bring safe drinking water to some of the most vulnerable comm...
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06-27-11
Organic Valley and National Cooperative Grocers Association Join Forces to Improve School Lunch
Organic Valley, the nation's oldest organic farmer-owned cooperative, and National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative serving 120 consumer-owned food co-ops nationwide, today announced they are joining forces to improve school lunch.
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06-23-11
Toronto Western Hospital Neurosurgeon to Head International Program Established in Memory of Late Barrick CEO, Greg Wilkins
Barrick and Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation are pleased to announce Dr. Mark Bernstein, a neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospital, as the holder of...
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06-22-11
Help Wanted: 1,000 Cooks for the Cure
/PRNewswire/ - Love to cook? Interested in supporting the fight against breast cancer? If so, Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the leader of the global movement to end breast cancer, is ready to put you to work.
The idea is simplicity itself. In...
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06-15-11
Kraft Foods Foundation and Feeding America Roll Out 10 New 'Farmers-Market-On-Wheels'
/PRNewswire/ - Kraft Foods Foundation and Feeding America, the nation's leading hunger-relief organization, are rolling out 10 new mobile pantry vehicles to food banks across the country. The goal? To deliver 9 million pounds of fresh produce and mealtime staples to famili...
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06-14-11
WellPoint Foundation Awards $150,000 to Disabled Sports USA to Help Severely Wounded Military Rebuild Their Lives Through Sports
/PRNewswire/ - More than 300 wounded military service members in 11 states will benefit from rehabilitation programs in sports and recreation through a one year, $150,000 grant from the WellPoint Foundation to Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA). The grant will support DSUSA's milit...
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06-14-11
BSR and Tomorrow Partners Launch New Tool to Educate Women on Health Issues in Developing Countries
Last week in Jakarta, Indonesia, BSR's HERproject launched the HERproject Toolbuilder - a web-based application to create training tools for factory-an...
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06-13-11
Kraft Foods Invests $10 Million in a Three-pronged Approach to Eradicate Child Malnutrition in Indonesia and Bangladesh
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- Empowers Women as Gatekeepers to Family Food Security Through Sustainable Farming, Microenterprises and Nutrition Education
- Part of Kraft Food's Commitment to WFP Project Laser Beam Partnership
By te...
